Omar Khouri
Aleppo
2020
silkscreen print
40 x 60 cm
In his current print series, he uses illustration and printmaking to create a portrait of each city. Using his style of portrait fragmentation which is based on traditional Islamic geometry, the breaks or lines can be seen as a reflection of the contradictions and cracks of fragility in each place. In “Aleppo”, instead of featured monuments of the city, you see the destruction of the civil war.
Lebanese artist Omar Khouri (1978) graduated from Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston and works primarily in painting, comics, and film. In 2006, he co-founded Samandal Comics and was the co-writer, concept artist, robot designer and actor in the award winning Lebanese Science Fiction film “The Last Days of the Man of Tomorrow.” Khouri’s work has been exhibited and is held in collections in the US, UK, Europe, Japan and Lebanon.
